pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes

On no-so-small systems, it is possible for a single process to cause an
OOM condition by filling large pipes with data that are never read. A
typical process filling 4000 pipes with 1 MB of data will use 4 GB of
memory. On small systems it may be tricky to set the pipe max size to
prevent this from happening.

This patch makes it possible to enforce a per-user soft limit above
which new pipes will be limited to a single page, effectively limiting
them to 4 kB each, as well as a hard limit above which no new pipes may
be created for this user. This has the effect of protecting the system
against memory abuse without hurting other users, and still allowing
pipes to work correctly though with less data at once.

The limit are controlled by two new sysctls : pipe-user-pages-soft, and
pipe-user-pages-hard. Both may be disabled by setting them to zero. The
default soft limit allows the default number of FDs per process (1024)
to create pipes of the default size (64kB), thus reaching a limit of 64MB
before starting to create only smaller pipes. With 256 processes limited
to 1024 FDs each, this results in 1024*64kB + (256*1024 - 1024) * 4kB =
1084 MB of memory allocated for a user. The hard limit is disabled by
default to avoid breaking existing applications that make intensive use
of pipes (eg: for splicing).

Reported-by: socketpair@gmail.com
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Mitigates: CVE-2013-4312 (Linux 2.0+)
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 42cf8ddf0e55..ab8dad3ccb6a 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ unsigned int pipe_max_size = 1048576;
  */
 unsigned int pipe_min_size = PAGE_SIZE;
 
+/* Maximum allocatable pages per user. Hard limit is unset by default, soft
+ * matches default values.
+ */
+unsigned long pipe_user_pages_hard;
+unsigned long pipe_user_pages_soft = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS * INR_OPEN_CUR;
+
 /*
  * We use a start+len construction, which provides full use of the 
  * allocated memory.
@@ -583,20 +589,49 @@ pipe_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on)
 	return retval;
 }
 
+static void account_pipe_buffers(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+                                 unsigned long old, unsigned long new)
+{
+	atomic_long_add(new - old, &pipe->user->pipe_bufs);
+}
+
+static bool too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(struct user_struct *user)
+{
+	return pipe_user_pages_soft &&
+	       atomic_long_read(&user->pipe_bufs) >= pipe_user_pages_soft;
+}
+
+static bool too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(struct user_struct *user)
+{
+	return pipe_user_pages_hard &&
+	       atomic_long_read(&user->pipe_bufs) >= pipe_user_pages_hard;
+}
+
 struct pipe_inode_info *alloc_pipe_info(void)
 {
 	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
 
 	pipe = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pipe_inode_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (pipe) {
-		pipe->bufs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pipe_buffer) * PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS, GFP_KERNEL);
+		unsigned long pipe_bufs = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS;
+		struct user_struct *user = get_current_user();
+
+		if (!too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(user)) {
+			if (too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(user))
+				pipe_bufs = 1;
+			pipe->bufs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pipe_buffer) * pipe_bufs, GFP_KERNEL);
+		}
+
 		if (pipe->bufs) {
 			init_waitqueue_head(&pipe->wait);
 			pipe->r_counter = pipe->w_counter = 1;
-			pipe->buffers = PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS;
+			pipe->buffers = pipe_bufs;
+			pipe->user = user;
+			account_pipe_buffers(pipe, 0, pipe_bufs);
 			mutex_init(&pipe->mutex);
 			return pipe;
 		}
+		free_uid(user);
 		kfree(pipe);
 	}
 
@@ -607,6 +642,8 @@ void free_pipe_info(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	account_pipe_buffers(pipe, pipe->buffers, 0);
+	free_uid(pipe->user);
 	for (i = 0; i < pipe->buffers; i++) {
 		struct pipe_buffer *buf = pipe->bufs + i;
 		if (buf->ops)
@@ -998,6 +1035,7 @@ static long pipe_set_size(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned long nr_pages)
 			memcpy(bufs + head, pipe->bufs, tail * sizeof(struct pipe_buffer));
 	}
 
+	account_pipe_buffers(pipe, pipe->buffers, nr_pages);
 	pipe->curbuf = 0;
 	kfree(pipe->bufs);
 	pipe->bufs = bufs;
@@ -1069,6 +1107,11 @@ long pipe_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && size > pipe_max_size) {
 			ret = -EPERM;
 			goto out;
+		} else if ((too_many_pipe_buffers_hard(pipe->user) ||
+			    too_many_pipe_buffers_soft(pipe->user)) &&
+		           !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+			ret = -EPERM;
+			goto out;
 		}
 		ret = pipe_set_size(pipe, nr_pages);
 		break;